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SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

Currently  PROFESSOR EMERITUS, EXHIBITING PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
1979-03 Professor of Art, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1997-02 Graduate Advisor (MAP, Non-residence Program), Prescott College, 
Prescott, AZ
1978-79 Exhibition Designer, Art Programs, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA
1977-78 Preparator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1976-77 Gallery Director and Lecturer, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
1974-76 Director/Founder, The Floating Wall Gallery, An “Alternative” Exhibition Space
Laguna Beach and Santa Ana, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Three Installations," May Open Studio, Sedona, Arizona
2007/08 "Marsha Red Adams: Photograms," West Valley Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2006 BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2005 Galeria Omar Alonso, Contemporary Art and Photography, 
Leona Vicario 249,  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2003 "Whispering Anam Cara" Installation Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Luther Burbank Center, 
Santa Rosa, CA
1999 Exit Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1998 “Mud, Blood, Stone and Bone,” Sam Hill Building, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
1997 “Axis Mundi,” Installation, Sam Hill Building, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ 
1996 Installation, Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
1991

The Freightdoor Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 

1989 Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA  
1986 “At Odds,” Grossmont College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA  
1984 College of Marin Photography Gallery,  College of Marin, Kentfield, CA  
1982 The Darkroom Gallery, Center for Photographic Studies, San Rafael, CA  
1980   Oakland Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA  
1977 Mira Costa College Fine Art Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA  
1976 Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA  
1974 The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
1996 “The Messenger,” Installation, Prescott Fine Art Association, Prescott, AZ  
1988 “Radial Landspeak,” Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands,
Redlands, CA 
1977 Sacramento State University Art Gallery, 
Sacramento State University, Sac., CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
2006 "For Shame," BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2004 "Mean Times...Back at Home," BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA  
Omar Alonso Galeria, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2000

“Into Grace Under Fire,” BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“Nature Books,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA  
“13th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet Gallery, 
Rhinelander, WI  
“15th Annual National Works on Paper,” University of Texas Art Gallery, 
Tyler, TX  
“LaGrange National XXI Biennial,” Lamar Dodd Art Center, 
LaGrange, GA  
Tennessee Technological University, Cooksville, TN  
Ohio Northern University, Idaho, OH

1999

Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, MN  
Art Center Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH  
Lawton Gallery & Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin, 
Green-Bay & Stevens Pt, WI  

1998

“Mirror Image,” Cezar Chevez Gallery, San Francisco State University, 
San Francisco, CA  
“Megatrends in Human Rights,” Russel Building, 
Senate Rotunda of the National Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.  
Traveled To:  Le Palais de Congres, Paris, France  
“Photography Invitational X,” Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconson, 
Green Bay, WI  
“New Photography, Landscapes and Earthscapes, Millard sheets Gallery, 
Los Angeles, CA  
“Horizons, A Landscape Survey,” The Broadway Gallery, 
Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
“Women in the American West,” Purdue University, Purdue, IN  
“The Light is Diverse in California,” California Center for the Visual Arts, 
Oakland, CA  

1997

“Magic Silver,” Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, 
Cedar Falls, IA
“Preview,” Gallery 325, Town Center, Corte Madera, CA  

1996 “Chichén Itzá Dream,” Installation, Fine Art Gallery, 
Sonoma State University,  Rohnert Park, CA  
“Faces,” Las Vegas Arts Council Gallery, Las Vegas, NM
“Photo Odyssey,” Margaret Crow Gallery, Old Town Pasadena, Pasadena, CA
“The Women’s Eye,” Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, CA
“New Mexico Photographer,” Runnels Gallery, 
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
“Biennial Photography Exhibition,” Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, 
CA Jerry McMillan First Place Award  
1995

“All Saints/All Souls,” Falkirk Cultural Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA
“91st National Open,” Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California 
(First Place Award)
“Surrealism Exhibition,” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Magic Silver,” Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, 
Cedar Falls, IA
Sedona Arts Center, Juried Exhibition, Sedona, Arizona 
(First Place Award)
“Marin Arts Council Photography Fellowship Exhibition,” 
Falkirk Cultural Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA 
(Fellowship Award)

1994

“Axis Mundi,” Installation, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, 
Rohnert Park, CA
Sedona Art Center, Juried Exhibition, Sedona, AZ
“New Acquisitions,” California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank 
Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA

1993  “Auction Exhibition,” The Eye Photography Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990

“For a Fragile Planet,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
“sx+n,” Live Installation/Performance, Sonoma State University 
Fine Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA

1988 “Solstice Exhibition,” Contemporary Arts Forum,  Santa Barbara, CA
1987 “10+10” Solar Grandjean de Montigny, Pontifica Universidad, Catolica, 
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1986 “Bay Area Photographers,” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1985 “Images of Marin,” Falkirk Cultural Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, 
CA California State Fair, Sacramento, California 
(Honorable Mention)
1984 “Tenth Anniversary Exhibitions,” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1982   “Monterey Penninsula College Faculty Exhibition,” 
Robert Lewis Stevenson Gallery, Monterey, CA 
1981 “The Exchange Show,” Galerie Franz Meehring, Amerika Haus,
Kunstampt Kreuberg, Berlin, West Germany 
“Masculine and Feminine Icons,” The Lester Gallery, Inverness, CA
1980 

“Summer Exhibition,” Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Photocurrents,” The Falkirk Cultural Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA
“First Person Plural,” Los Angeles Harbor College Art Gallery, 
Los Angeles, CA

1979 “Prints and Drawings,” Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978

“California Contemporary Photography,” San Francisco Camerawork, 
San Francisco, CA
“Visions, Dreams and Illusions,” Memorial Union Gallery, 
University of California, Davis, CA
“Auction Exhibition,” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

1976

“Women See Women,” The First Women’s Bank, New York, NY
“Faculty Exhibition,” Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, 
Arcata, CA

1975 

“The Irvine Milieu,” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“UCI’s Tenth Year 1965-1975,” University of California 
Fine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
“Five Galleries of Orange County,” Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 
Laguna Beach, CA
“Flight,” The Floating Wall, Santa Ana, CA

1974

“The Erotic Show,” The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“Self-Portrait Exhibition,” The Community Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Erotica,” Triforium Galleries, San Diego, CA

1973 “Pomona Print Exhibition,” Cal Poly Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
1972 

“Catharsis,” The Floating Wall Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“Relationships/Photo Drawings,” University of California Fine Art Gallery, 
Irvine, CA
“Auction Exhibition,”  Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA


GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
1999 Marin Art Council Individual Artist Grant, Unrestricted Fellowship in Photography   
1996 Public Art and Scenic Highway Project (FIGP)
The Jerry McMillan Highest Award in Fine Art Photography, 
Metropolitan Projects Authority
1995 Public Art Works, “Art in Print,” Marin Civic Center Project 
(Grant Proposal Awarded)
91st National Open First Place Award, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
Sedona Art Center First Place Award in Photography, Sedona, AZ
1994 Marin Art Council Individual Artist Grant, Unrestricted Fellowship in Photography
1993 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, Sonoma State University: 
"Toxicity in Black and White Photographic Chemicals”
1991-93 California State University Summer Arts Program, 
Course-Coordinator in Art Performance   
California State University Summer Arts Program, 
Statewide Program Committee 
1993 1991
1989
Stanford University Bereavement and Coping Project, 
Psychology Department Palo Alto, CA  
1987-89 Vice Chair, Society of Photographic Education, Western Regional Board     
1987 Affirmative Action Faculty Development Grant, Sonoma State University   
Conference Program Chair, Western Regional, 
Society of Photographic Education 
“Pushing Boundaries: Photography in an Interdisciplinary 
and Multimedia Context,  Electronic Media and Edu-tainment”   
1986 “With the Land,” Guest Co-Curated: Exhibition and Lecture Series, Sonoma State University,
Rohnert Park, CA.
Honorable Mention,  The 11th Falkirk Cultural 
Center Art Gallery Annual, San Rafael, CA
1985

Honorable Mention, California State Fair Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
Honorable Mention, “Images of Marin,” 
Falkirk Cultural Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA

1980 “Photographic Scale,” Guest Curator, University Fine Art Gallery, 
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
“The Issue is Scale,” National Exhibition Lecture for The Society of 
Photographic Education, NY 
1976  “Three Photographic Tangents,” Guest Curator, Golden West College Art
Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA 
Traveled To: Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
1975

“Five Galleries of Orange County,” Organized Exhibition for 
The Laguna Beach Museum of Art,  Laguna Beach, CA  

 

REVIEWS

2006 OC Weekly, “Art Finds a Friend,” Rebecca Schoenkopf, Jan. 1980  Artweek, Vol. II, # 33, Oct.
Independent Journal, Sept.
OC Metro, “Shameless in Laguna," Liz Goldner, Jan. Artweek, Vol II, # 22, June
Artweek, Feb
Squeeze OC, “Naughty or Nice,” Cynthia Rupe, Jan. Arts Guide, Feb.
Sonoma Star, Jan
2002 Press Democrat, Dec. 
Art Muse, Nov. 
Artweek, Jan.
1999 Laguna Post, Dec. 16 1978  Sacramento Bee, Oct.
1998 Prescott Courier, Nov 1977 Artweek, Jan. 15
1996 Sonoma Star, Sept. Eureka Times Standard, Jan.
Prescott Courier, Sept.  Artweek, Jan. 29
Prescott Courier, June  Timely Supplements, Feb.
The Fresno Bee, March Artweek, Feb
1995 Peter Frank, Los Angeles Artweek, March
Times, Art Critic Artweek, May
Press Telegram, May Eureka Times Standard, Oct
The Guide, A Digest  Arcata Prologue, Nov.
1994 Sonoma Star, Sept.  1976 The Lumberjack, Nov.
1993

Artist Dialog (interview) Oct./Nov.

Artweek, Feb.
1991 The Lumberjack, July 1975 Artweek, Nov.
1989

Sonoma Star, Nov. Vol.XXI  # II

Artweek, Sept.
1988

High Performance, May

Los Angeles Times, Sept.

Redlands Daily, April 

Laguna Wavelength, Aug.
1986  Los Angeles Times, Oct. Artweek, June
Artweek, Vol 17 #13, April  Artweek, May
1985  Press Democrat, April Los Angeles Times, March
1983  

Clarion, Feb.

1974 Artweek, Nov.
1982 

Marin Pacific Sun, June

Daily Pilot, Aug.
1981  Courage (Berlin), Ebba Sakel, Nov. Laguna Wavelength, May
 

VISUAL REPRODUCTIONS
1996

New Mexico Photographer Magazine (Feb), "Re-Turning"
Publication of Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM

1995 

Sonoma Mandala Literary Review, "The Visitor" and "Alone Darkly"
Publication of  Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

1992

The Journey Home (The Box), "Woman Bound" and "The Visitor"
Terma Company Publication, Santa Fe, NM

1991

"What Have We Got To Lose?"  Artists and the Environmental Crisis,
"Re-Strain, Re-Train, Re-Main" 
Gallery Route One Publication, Point Reyes Station, CA

1990

Object and Image (Text), "Just Ice" Joshua Tree National Monument
George Craven, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1984

San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly: Volume II, Number III and IV (Fall)
"Tenth Anniversary Exhibition" San Francisco Camerawork Press,
San Francisco, CA

1983

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Pre-History, "Rock Woman"
Lucy Lippard, Random House, New York, NY

1982

San Francisco Camerawork Auction Catalog (Nov),  "Untitled"
San Francisco Camerawork Press, San Francisco, CA
Object and Image
(Text), "Woman Bound" From the Series "Woman Bound"
George Craven, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1981

The Exchange Show Catalog (Sept), "Everything's Up in the Air"
Galerie Franz Mehring, Berlin, West Germany

1978

 Contemporary California Photography Catalogue (Spring)
"Woman Withdrawn" From the Series "Woman Bound"
San Francisco Camerawork Press, San Francisco, CA
Camerawork Magazine Cover (May) "Untitled"
 

San Francisco Camerawork Press, San Francisco, CA

1977

Images-Themes and Dreams, "Woman and Earth"
J.J. Wilson and Karen Peterson, Harper and Row, New York, NY

1976

 Women See Women, "Woman with Six Arms"
Editors: Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Yvonne Kalmus, Sonia Karchian 
and Rikki Ripp,  Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York NY

1975

The Irvine Milieu, 1965-1975 Catalog, 
"The Necklace" and "Contained Bliss"

Curator: Melinda Wortz, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art 
La Jolla, CA

EDUCATION

1973 MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA
1971 BFA,  University of California, Irvine, CA

 

 

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